| Summary: | Background: Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of
patients and families in dealing with problems associated with life-threatening illness.
Family satisfaction is one important indicator of the achievement of effective
palliative care. Therefore, measuring family satisfaction to be important treatments
performed by a health care provider.
Objective: to describe family satisfaction of palliative cancer patients to palliative
care services in RSUP Dr. Sardjito Yogyakarta
Method: a cross sectional descriptive study using a quantitative approach undertaken
in Dr. Sardjito April-June 2014 a total of 33 respondents. Family satisfaction was
measured using Famcare scale and numerical data analysis using descriptive and
categorical and different test performed using the unpaired t-test, Mann Whitney and
one-way ANOVA.
Result: in this study, 66.7% -100% satisfaction in the category of \"very satisfied\" and
\"satisfied\". Families have the highest satisfaction subscale of the psychosocial
treatment (mean 1.82 ± 0.30). 'How doctors conduct an examination of the patient's
complaints' is a question items with the highest satisfaction rates as much as 42.4%
while the family was very satisfied, 'ease of getting inpatient room' as much as 3% of
respondents chose a value of 5 which indicates that the respondents are not satisfied.
This study found no significant differences between the demographic data of
respondents and patients with levels of family satisfaction (p> 0.05).
Conclusion: family palliative cancer patients have a high level of satisfaction with
the services of palliative care in RSUP Dr. Sardjito Yogyakarta.
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